Essay - Personality: Permanent? It Has Been A Long Controversy About How...

Personality: Permanent?

It has been a long controversy *****bout how nature and nurture imply to personality traits and human behavior. Nature means that genetic factor ***** the system of organs control the *****, while nurture means ***** personality is a result of conditioned circumstances where a person is brought up. It includes the personality of other people, like family, includes the teaching, and lessons a child gains during h*****/her mental development process.

Recent studies find more in human biological system that genes are related to people's *****. McInerney (2001) shows, many researchers believe that *****s factors determine how someone will act and think in his or her life. Animal ***** ***** are b*****n with specific character l*****ked ***** the genetic information in the genes. It shapes each ********** trait exclusively including the performance in social, interaction, intelligence, and adaptability to the surrounding community.

Behavior may change, he states, as a person encounters "alterations in biological structures or processes," mechanically or chemically. F***** instance, a person's gentle person*****lity may change dramatically after an accident ***** causes brain injury, therefore chemical treatment or medications - or even gene modification - is necessary ***** control the disorder ***** fix the problem.

However, this cannot be concluded from one side view. Naturally there is none of the factor gives impact to personality change stronger than the ***** one. Psycholog*****t Ro*****rt Plomin as cited by Azar (1997) says, both nature and nurture influence some*****'s personality, in o*****r words, there is an equal portion of ***** ***** and environ***** ********** in determining *****. The *****tics factors only "give half of the variance ***** most traits," ***** environment takes the rest of it.

Human undergoes a certain change in adaptation to the environment. It is experiencing and focusing through feeling process. According ***** Glendlin (1964), personal*****y does not merely involve "intellectual or actional operations" but also includes the "feeling process." In "experiencing," human uses the existing material (basic personality) to learn through exposures to the new occurrence or situation. Environment, here is the external factor including "symbols, and actions ***** interact with our feeling process."

Here is when environment ***** part. An observation ***** that environment, like in a case of therapy or set establ*****hing ***** the nurture, can facilitate a person to conduct ***** ***** change. Setting free a personality in***** a proper environment most likely brings ***** person into a situation, which he feels exposed and able to express what the real ***** is.

********** example, it takes a while to cre*****te environmentally s*****porting condition ***** overcome violence ***** in ***** case of difficult, stubborn (easily frustrated, extra sensitive) babies with difficulty "coping with change" (Cosgrove, 2000).

Adrien Raine, University of Southern California researcher, as cited by Cosgrove (2000) explains that prefrontal cortex brain damage that is important in determ*****ing one's antisocial behavior may present in people may bring the disorder from the birth. It is usually *****sumed that such disorders happened ***** head injury during accident. Both causes play ***** same role *****ling people's